[Mailman-Users] Importing Eudora email box into archives

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Sat Apr 1 06:01:21 CEST 2006


BG Mahesh wrote:
>
>I have the archives of a mailing list in my Eudora mailbox [with
>attachments]. Is there anyway I could import it into Mailman archives?

bin/arch will probably do it.

I would do the following steps. First

bin/cleanarch < eudora.mbx > temp.mbox

Then it depends on whether or not there are existing Mailman archives
for the list, and if so, whether it is important to preserve the
existing message numbers in this archive. Basically, you want to
concatenate the existing archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox
file if any and the temp.mbox created above.

If preserving message numbers is not a priority, it is best to do

cat temp.mbox archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox > temp2.mbox
cp temp2.mbox archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox

which will leave archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox in
cronological sequence, but if you want to preserve message numbers,
you need to add temp.mbox to the end.

In either case, you then do

bin/arch --wipe listname

to totally rebuild the Pipermail archive from the default
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox.

You could just do the first step above and then do

bin/arch listname temp.mbox

To add the messages in temp.mbox to the existing listname Pipermail
archive, but then you have the archive split between two mbox files
which makes searching and subsequent rebuilding awkward.

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